Slain U.S. judge (John Roll)'s ruling upheld in immigrant case

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Slain U.S. judge's ruling upheld in immigrant case
by Bob Egelko

(02-04) 17:18 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court has upheld $78,000 in damages to illegal immigrants who were held at gunpoint by a rancher in the southern Arizona desert, a case that prompted death threats against a federal judge who was fatally shot last month in Tucson.

U.S. District Judge John Roll was one of six people slain Jan. 8 when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket at a crowd of constituents meeting with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was critically wounded. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is being held in the slayings.

Roll, 63, was killed nearly three years after ruling in the case of the rancher, Roger Barnett, who found the migrants in a dry creekbed near his 22,000-acre property in March 2004. They said he had threatened to shoot them or turn his dog on them, called them racial names and kicked one of the women.

Barnett denied assaulting or threatening them but acknowledged holding them while summoning the Border Patrol.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/04/BAA61HJ29A.DTL

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Judge Roll was a George HW Bush nominee.

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1. Good!

[sharesunited]

2. What interesting facts this story is filled with.

Among them: Visas are issuable to foreign nationals when they are assisting U.S. authorities.

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3. Hopefully this will send a message to these would-be militia

peckerwoods that are 'defendin' are bordur'.